Rhetenor

Rhetenor
Female Rhetenor in Ecuador
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Dendryphantinae
Genus: Rhetenor
Simon, 1902
Type species
Rhetenor diversipes
Simon, 1902
Species

see text

Diversity
2 species

Rhetenor is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Spiders in this genus are beetle mimics.

The name of the genus is a literary reference. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Rhetenor was a companion of Diomedes.[1]

Species

References

  1. ↑ D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P. E. Cushing, and V. Roth (eds.) (2005). Spiders of North America: an identification manual. American Arachnological Society. p. 317.


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